Maurice Henderson & Ewen Thomson on Shetland

We’re back on the glorious Shetland Isles for this episode and who better to show us around than the renowned local fiddle player Maurice Henderson (of Fiddlers Bid) and his friend the luthier and guitarist from Fair Isle Ewen Thomson? After Ewen demonst...

Official Folk Albums Chart of the Year Show 2021

Join us for a very special show streamed live from Cecil Sharp House. The show looks back at the highlights of 2021, the very first full year of The Official Folk Albums Chart.Hosted by Matthew Bannister with guest co-host Kitty Macfarlane, the show featur...

Sounds of the Earth – January

Relax with a calming mix of music and natural sounds. From midwinter on the English coast to the floodplains of Central Brazil via an Oxfordshire canal and a Somerset millpond, this month's mix focuses on birds.Includes listener recordings made by Michael ...

Kathryn Tickell & her Dad by the River Rede

“He said you could pluck songs out of the air - pluck them out of the air - and sing them bonny”. The great Northumbrian pipe player Kathryn Tickell describes the River Rede near her home as the backdrop and soundscape to her life. On its bank, she is ...

Nick Luscombe's Japan Winter

Tokyo-based DJ and broadcaster Nick Luscombe explores the sound of winter in Japan.

A Sonic Journey across the Universe

The sounds of the cosmos revealed through the sonification of astronomical data.

Sounds of the Earth – December

Relax with a calming mix of music and natural sounds - from the Caribbean and back again via the rainforests of Queensland and the icy waters off Nova Scotia, Canada.Includes listener recordings made by William Collinson and Julio Davila and BBC Natural Hi...

Venice Between the Bells

There are 107 bell towers in Venice. Wherever you go in the city the passage of time is measured by the echo of bells across rooftops. But the biggest bell of them all – the Marangona in St. Mark's Basilica – only stirs into sound twice a day: at midda...

Declan O‘Rourke in Kinvara

The acclaimed singer and songwriter Declan O’Rourke takes us for a scenic walk near his home in the beautiful fishing village of Kinvara on the west coast of Ireland, singing songs inspired by the area as he goes.  Declan’s grandfather, an artist, was...

Box Moor – Dennis Furnell (Radio Walks)

Spend half an hour walking the ancient and unique landscape of Box Moor in the Chiltern Hills with life-trustee Dennis Furnell.  In spite of the decision to drive a bypass straight through the middle of this vulnerable chalk downland on the edge of He...

Sounds of the Earth – November

Relax with a calming mix of music and natural sounds - from a Loch in the Scottish Highlands to the evergreen forests of Thailand via South Africa and a tiny Gloucestershire village.With field recordings by Hugh Manistree, Grace Niska Atkins, Christopher H...

The Ciderhouse Rebellion & Jessie Summerhayes in the Rosedale Valley

In the shadow of the disused ironstone kilns of the Rosedale Valley in North Yorkshire, Ciderhouse Rebellion - fiddle player Adam Summerhayes and accordionist Murray Grainger - conjure up a soundscape of rare beauty - improvised on the spot. Then they add ...

Sounds of the Earth – October

Relax with a calming mix of music and natural sounds - from a wolf sanctuary in Portugal to a watery Danish peninsula. Plus, sounds from grazing time at Lake Naivasha, Kenya and evening sunlight at the South Downs National Park with rooks, pigeons and a ni...

Sounding Jarrow Slake

Jarrow Slake is an expanse of tidal mudflats at the mouth of the Tyne with fascinating social and natural histories. The Venerable Bede lived and worked here; timber from Scandinavia was brought to mature in its ponds. In 1972 the Port of Tyne authority fi...

The Urban Gardener – Kate Poland (Radio Walks)

Radio Walks – The Urban Gardener, Kate Poland.  “Everyone has a right to access nature and green spaces. It should not be a privilege. Growing stuff is political and empowering: putting a seed in the ground and creating something is a rebellious a...

Edgelarks at Scorhill Stone Circle

A Bronze Age site on Dartmoor, six musical instruments, a feather, harmonica-enhanced beatboxing, a stone that is said to increase fertility, a fast flowing river, a baby and a caring grandmother - all ingredients of a wonderful walk with the award-winning...

Sounds of the Earth – September

Relax with a calming mix of music and natural sounds - from the ruins of Quarr Abbey on the Isle of Wight to Cerne Abbas in Dorset, via a 15th Century church in Kings Norton and a leafy park in Oxfordshire.With field recordings by Mary Edwards and Scott Ar...

Homeward

After a break of over a year owing to Covid 19 Restrictions, Calum and Claire MacAulay travel back to their native Skye and North Uist for a long awaited reunion with family.

The Dunwich Dynamo

Experience a night-time journey from central London to the Suffolk coast, on a bicycle.

Olivia Chaney at the House on Hawnby Moor

Olivia Chaney wrote many of the songs for her critically acclaimed second solo album whilst living alone without electricity or mains water at her family’s remote and crumbling farmhouse on Hawnby Moor in North Yorkshire. On a hot summer’s day, she tak...